Let a caller hand in the face map, and stop a lost crop looking deliberate - #220
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…erate A clip that asks to follow the speaker and cannot gets the whole wide frame shrunk into a band with a blurred copy of itself behind it. That is the right answer for a source with nothing to crop to and the wrong one for a two-person recording, and it has been reached in silence. The ladder for `speaker` is five rungs, and the four above the fallback all need either speaker labels on the words or a face map. Both come from the diarizing transcriber, so a run against a transcript that has neither — any whisper run, and every imported transcript — could only ever land on the last rung. The caller often knows where the faces are and had no way to say so. `--face-map` takes a path to one, on both `process` and `studio`, and it wins over the map the transcriber found: whoever passed it scanned this video, rather than inferring the layout from who was speaking. `--crop-keyframes` does the same for a frame somebody placed by hand, and `manual` joins the `--crop` choices it has needed since the strategy was written — the renderer has understood it for months while the parser refused it, so the only way in was the MCP path. Manual with no keyframes used to fall past every branch and reach the return with no filter built, which is an UnboundLocalError rather than a clip. It became reachable the moment the flag existed, so it now degrades to a face crop and says so. The fallback reports itself. `[crop] chose=center-blur-bg` carries what was asked for, and asking for anything but centre and getting this logs an `uncropped` warning, so a caller watching the render can tell the difference between a centre crop that was the plan and a face crop that gave up.
The keyframes have always been passed inline by the one caller that sends them, and a face map is far too big for an argument list. Rather than a flag each, both read what they were given: JSON if it opens with a brace, a path otherwise.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CLI accepts face maps and manual crop keyframes as inline JSON or file inputs. Studio forwards these values to clip rendering. Manual cropping without keyframes falls back to face cropping, and crop fallback logging now records the requested strategy. ChangesManual Crop and Face Map Inputs
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Manual cropping is not merge-ready: studio rejects the manual strategy, process silently ignores supplied keyframes, and malformed input shapes can terminate rendering. The new options are also absent from the custom help. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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CLI->>clip_studio_py: provide face_map and crop_keyframes
clip_studio_py->>generate_clip: pass parsed framing inputs
generate_clip->>crop_to_vertical: provide crop strategy and keyframes
crop_to_vertical->>crop_to_vertical: fall back from manual to face when keyframes are absent
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The flag lets a caller hand a face map in. This is the answer for everyone who has none to hand: build it. A map only ever arrived from the diarizing transcriber. Any whisper run, any imported transcript and every cloud render that transcribes locally therefore had none, and `speaker` and `face` skipped all four rungs that could place a frame and landed on the last one — the whole wide source shrunk into a band with a blurred copy behind it, logged as a centre crop. The scan already exists and is what the diarizing path calls. It clusters faces off the frames themselves; speaker segments only decide which cluster belongs to whom, so it still finds where the faces are and whether the recording is a split screen when there are none. That is what a crop needs. `process` scans once for the episode, before the clip loop. `studio` scans the fragment it was handed, which for a cloud recut is the window already cut. It runs only for a crop that needs it, and a failed or empty scan falls back the way it did before rather than losing the clip.
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In `@backend/cli.py`:
- Around line 99-102: Validate parsed --face-map input in the JSON helpers of
backend/cli.py and backend/clip_studio.py to require a JSON object before it
reaches _sane_speaker_mappings. In backend/clip_studio.py, validate
--crop-keyframes as a list of objects containing the required t and x_pct fields
before _manual_crop_x_expr indexes them; reject invalid shapes with the existing
input-error behavior.
- Around line 99-102: Validate the decoded face-map value as a JSON object in
both boundaries: backend/cli.py lines 99-102 and backend/clip_studio.py lines
175-179. Update the face-map loading helpers before assigning or forwarding
face_map to reject arrays, scalars, and other non-object JSON values, while
preserving valid object handling for _sane_speaker_mappings() and
generate_clip().
- Around line 4449-4454: Update print_help() to document the full crop choices,
including manual, and add entries for the --face-map and --crop-keyframes
options with descriptions matching their argparse help text.
- Around line 4453-4454: Update cmd_process to read and parse
args.crop_keyframes, then pass the resulting crop_keyframes value to the initial
generate_clip call and every rerender path so manual cropping uses the supplied
positions.
In `@backend/clip_studio.py`:
- Around line 325-326: Add manual to the choices list for the crop argument in
clip_studio.py, so the parser accepts --crop manual and allows
_render_fragment() to process the associated --crop-keyframes input while
preserving the existing crop choices.
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Validate JSON shapes in both input helpers.
A truthy list or scalar passed as --face-map reaches _sane_speaker_mappings, which calls .get and raises AttributeError. Require a JSON object in backend/cli.py and backend/clip_studio.py.
A non-list or malformed entry passed as --crop-keyframes reaches _manual_crop_x_expr, which indexes k["t"] and k["x_pct"] and can raise. Require a list of objects with the required keyframe fields in backend/clip_studio.py.
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In `@backend/cli.py` around lines 99 - 102, Validate parsed --face-map input in
the JSON helpers of backend/cli.py and backend/clip_studio.py to require a JSON
object before it reaches _sane_speaker_mappings. In backend/clip_studio.py,
validate --crop-keyframes as a list of objects containing the required t and
x_pct fields before _manual_crop_x_expr indexes them; reject invalid shapes with
the existing input-error behavior.
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Validate face-map JSON at both CLI boundaries.
Both helpers accept any syntactically valid JSON. A truthy non-object reaches _sane_speaker_mappings(), which calls .get() and can abort rendering with AttributeError.
backend/cli.py#L99-L102: require--face-mapto decode to a JSON object before assigningface_map.backend/clip_studio.py#L175-L179: apply the same validation before forwardingface_maptogenerate_clip().
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In `@backend/cli.py` around lines 99 - 102, Validate the decoded face-map value as
a JSON object in both boundaries: backend/cli.py lines 99-102 and
backend/clip_studio.py lines 175-179. Update the face-map loading helpers before
assigning or forwarding face_map to reject arrays, scalars, and other non-object
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| proc.add_argument("--crop", choices=["center", "face", "speaker", "speaker-hardcut", "manual"]) | ||
| proc.add_argument("--face-map", dest="face_map", default=None, | ||
| help="Where the faces sit in this video, as JSON. Skips detection and lets " | ||
| "speaker framing work on a transcript that carries no speaker labels.") | ||
| proc.add_argument("--crop-keyframes", dest="crop_keyframes", default=None, | ||
| help="Hand-placed crop positions, as JSON. Used by --crop manual.") |
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Update the custom help for the new crop inputs.
print_help() still lists only speaker | speaker-hardcut | face | center. It also omits --face-map and --crop-keyframes. Update the custom help so podcli --help describes the options added here.
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In `@backend/cli.py` around lines 4449 - 4454, Update print_help() to document the
full crop choices, including manual, and add entries for the --face-map and
--crop-keyframes options with descriptions matching their argparse help text.
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| proc.add_argument("--crop-keyframes", dest="crop_keyframes", default=None, | ||
| help="Hand-placed crop positions, as JSON. Used by --crop manual.") |
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Forward --crop-keyframes through cmd_process.
The parser accepts this option, but cmd_process never reads args.crop_keyframes and none of its generate_clip calls includes crop_keyframes. Therefore process --crop manual --crop-keyframes ... silently falls back to automatic cropping. Parse the value and pass it to the initial render and every rerender path.
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In `@backend/cli.py` around lines 4453 - 4454, Update cmd_process to read and
parse args.crop_keyframes, then pass the resulting crop_keyframes value to the
initial generate_clip call and every rerender path so manual cropping uses the
supplied positions.
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| ap.add_argument("--crop-keyframes", dest="crop_keyframes", default=None, | ||
| help="Path to hand-placed crop positions as JSON. Used by --crop manual.") |
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Add manual to the clip_studio.py crop choices.
backend/cli.py accepts and forwards --crop manual, but this parser still rejects that value before _render_fragment() runs. studio --crop manual --crop-keyframes ... therefore exits with an argparse error. Add manual to the choices list.
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In `@backend/clip_studio.py` around lines 325 - 326, Add manual to the choices
list for the crop argument in clip_studio.py, so the parser accepts --crop
manual and allows _render_fragment() to process the associated --crop-keyframes
input while preserving the existing crop choices.
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A clip that asks to follow the speaker and cannot gets the whole wide frame
shrunk into a band with a blurred copy of itself behind it. That is the right
answer for a source with nothing to crop to and the wrong one for a two-person
recording, and it has been reached in silence.
The ladder for
speakeris five rungs, and the four above the fallback allneed either speaker labels on the words or a face map. Both come from the
diarizing transcriber, so a run against a transcript that has neither — any
whisper run, and every imported transcript — could only ever land on the last
rung. The caller often knows where the faces are and had no way to say so.
--face-maptakes a path to one, on bothprocessandstudio, and it winsover the map the transcriber found: whoever passed it scanned this video,
rather than inferring the layout from who was speaking.
--crop-keyframesdoes the same for a frame somebody placed by hand, and
manualjoins the--cropchoices it has needed since the strategy was written — the rendererhas understood it for months while the parser refused it, so the only way in
was the MCP path.
Manual with no keyframes used to fall past every branch and reach the return
with no filter built, which is an UnboundLocalError rather than a clip. It
became reachable the moment the flag existed, so it now degrades to a face
crop and says so.
The fallback reports itself.
[crop] chose=center-blur-bgcarries what wasasked for, and asking for anything but centre and getting this logs an
uncroppedwarning, so a caller watching the render can tell the differencebetween a centre crop that was the plan and a face crop that gave up.
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